Muhammad Kamaruzzaman

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman (4 July 1952-11 April 2015) was the Assistant Secretary-General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and the editor of the ''Weekly Sonar Bangla. ''Kamaruzzaman was executed by hanging at the Dhaka Central Jail of Bangladesh on 11 April 2015 for war crimes committed in the Bangladesh Liberation War, including rape, genocide, killing, looting, arson, and deportation.

Biography
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was born on 4 July 1952 in Sherpur, East Pakistan, to a Bengali Muslim family. In 1971, he became the chief organizer for Al-Badr in the Mymensingh region, attempting to defeat the insurgents seeking to form the nation of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War. After the war ended, Kamaruzzaman graduated from Dhaka University in the new sovereign nation of Bangladesh in 1976 with a master's degree in journalism, and he worked as an editor of Weekly Sonar Bangla and as the executive editor of The Daily Sangram. From 1991 to 2008 he unsuccessfully contested the seat Sherpur-1 in elections, with Awami League candidate Atiur Rahman Atik beating him the last three elections out of four.

In 2010 he was arrested and detained for over a year without knowing of the charges brought against him. He was charged with the massacre of 120 men and the rape of the woman in Shohaghpur on 25 July 1971, the massacre of 8 people in Chawkbazar in the middle of Ramadan, and the murder of 5 more people during Ramadan. On 9 May 2013 the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh found him guilty of torture, genocide, killing, rape, looting, arson, and deportation of unarmed civilians during the war of independence in 1971, and he appealed to the Supreme Court, saying that the trial was politically motivated. On the charge of the Shohaghpur genocide, his death sentence was upheld, and at 10:01 PM on 11 April 2015, he was executed by hanging in the Dhaka Central Jail.